Exile in Portales

Wow... the worst one-day loss in a few years and the market's in the red for 2011 .  It's a good thing we didn't default , yan...

A couple of screen shots from an interesting data visualization: Those teeny tiny things are individual pallets of one hundred million d...

You could cue up Arte Johnson after that "interesting" title, to wit: "But STOOPID."  From my congresscritter's ne...

Representative Ryan gets it .  The easiest way to understand whether Ryan is right or wrong is to look at who opposes what he's tryin...

The federal deficit is obscene but the states are in worse shape... which is no big secret to anyone who's been paying even the slightes...

Heh.  It's indeed "The New Civility" when it comes to entitlements.  Everyone wants to reduce the deficit but NO one wants t...

Yeah, I watched it.  I had it in my mind to limit my comments to a screen-shot of the US debt clock , but Mz. Benson beat me to it. It was...

... if you're in to politics, if you're concerned about the deficit, and especially if you happen to be the sort who believes nothin...

Sorry to keep going on, Gentle Reader, but I have a major case o' red ass.

Apropos of the above... Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of the president's budget commission... were on Charlie Rose fo...

... could a new budget-busting entitlement that some estimate as adding $460 billion to the federal deficit over the next ten years and $1.4...

Everyone is well aware of California's perilous economic situation and there's been a LOT of talk about the state going bankrupt.  W...

I like this: There's just one lil problem with the image: MY bank won't give me any more money if I'm overdrawn.  The gub'm...

I didn't watch The One deliver his elebbenty-lebbenth speech on ObamaCare last evening, this time to a joint session of Congress… his se...

About which ( Investor's Business Daily -- " Meet the New Boss "): A president of the United States orders the chief executiv...

So… the new day dawned bright, clear, and cold. But it was such a joy to fill the coffee pot from the tap, wash my face with hot running w...

… and that economic idiot would be me , Gentle Reader. But I’ve come across a few articles that seem to be written in layman’s terms, al...